Northampton-born, self-taught sculptor in wood who, after several office jobs, from age 21 was employed by a leather manufacturer near the town until retirement in 1977. By the late 1930s Eaton had become fascinated by modern sculpture and while a conscientious objector during World War II carved a wooden figure based on his wife. She in 1948 took examples of his work to the Leicester Galleries in London, two being accepted. Friendship with the sculptor Robert Adams proved a spur and by the time of Eaton’s only London solo show, at the Galerie Apollinaire in 1950, his output was almost entirely abstract. He also exhibited with the LG, Groupe Espace at the Royal Festival Hall, other London galleries, RSA and annually at Northampton Town and County Art Society, of which he was president, 1968–9.